Every blue moon I will actually toss a plug in the pond out back on a Sunday evening...never disappoints. Got this girl yesterday, first cast, on a frog pattern jitterbug- my favorite plug as a kid fishing neighbord ponds and still is now. For scale, I'm about 24" wide across shoulders; she would likely push ten pounds in spawn.
John
Mods, please rotate.
thx.
:o Nice one !
John!
Nice Catch Buddy Boy!!!
BUTT why is the bass taller than you???? ::)
Wayne
Rotated photos, John --
Nice bass!
Released her?
Best, Fred
Thanks, Fred! Yes, released- haven't kept a bass in decades, probably, unless bleeding badly from a gut-hook. I mostly use top water or spinner baits for the little bass fishing I do anymore, very rarely a worm, so most are lip-hooked.
Nice fish! I am, however, more envious of that readily available stress relieving body of water in your back yard!
Beauty John, I too do not utilize the local ponds enough but when I do, my daughter will catch a small bass every cast and occasionally I pull a football sized bass out. It can keep me sane when the Cobia aren't in town.
Nice lunker John! 8)
Beautiful fish, beautiful spot.
-steve
One can only dream of such a fish on the very first cast
Next time you need to have a normal size person pose with your fish. You would make a 30# king salmon look like a Brook trout
Quote from: Maxed Out on October 28, 2019, 07:35:55 PM
Next time you need to have a normal size person pose with your fish.
or use a beer can to get a reference on the size.
great catch by the way, I have the beach at 10 minutes drive from my house and used to cast with light tackle every 3 weeks few years ago, I have at least 2 years that I havent done it mostly becasue we dont have much shore fish on sandy beaches (because of the crazy tide that goes up and down 1/2 mile 2 times per day) and rocky areas are not that near.
Big largemouth and great sunset,,,,love it,,,, :D my next question it what gear,,,,, ;D
Nice 'un--take one of those any day if I could get it.
Frank
Mainly I feed the eater crackers (big shellcrackers) and a few blue cats that live under the dock while having a coffee or cold one depending on time of day. When we moved from the coast it was not happy day for me, so the place kind of found me I guess you'd say. After about the third look, I decided it would be good to at least have a little water. There's always a heron and geese, and this year we had an egret show up, plus a dozen mallards, assorted hawks and kingfishers, deer, rabbits, sliders and snappers, bullfrogs, etc.
Benni, I keep a few rods rigged in the shop (R&D lab :) for the neighborhood kids, but also have a 420SS on a whippy stick for myself and in this case, an Abu 5500C, I think the second one (of a LOT) that I ever got. It's on a seven foot graphite IM6 or 7 with cork grip, a Shimano something or other. I have a whole rack of 5500's on 7' cork handle sticks, most with 12 or 14 Stren original fluoro blue, as I grew up with. The little dinky reels these guys are using now remind me of the Ryobi VMAG 1 my brother had when we were 8. These new reels the tourney guys are using look like a keychain fob in my hand, not a fishing implement, lol.
Quote from: thorhammer on October 29, 2019, 01:45:08 AM
Mainly I feed the eater crackers (big shellcrackers) and a few blue cats that live under the dock while having a coffee or cold one depending on time of day. When we moved from the coast it was not happy day for me, so the place kind of found me I guess you'd say. After about the third look, I decided it would be good to at least have a little water. There's always a heron and geese, and this year we had an egret show up, plus a dozen mallards, assorted hawks and kingfishers, deer, rabbits, sliders and snappers, bullfrogs, etc.
Benni, I keep a few rods rigged in the shop (R&D lab :) for the neighborhood kids, but also have a 420SS on a whippy stick for myself and in this case, an Abu 5500C, I think the second one (of a LOT) that I ever got. It's on a seven foot graphite IM6 or 7 with cork grip, a Shimano something or other. I have a whole rack of 5500's on 7' cork handle sticks, most with 12 or 14 Stren original fluoro blue, as I grew up with. The little dinky reels these guys are using now remind me of the Ryobi VMAG 1 my brother had when we were 8. These new reels the tourney guys are using look like a keychain fob in my hand, not a fishing implement, lol.
it works,,,, ;) and your getting big fish and that's fabulous,,,,,keep up the great work,,,,,my freind,,,,,,
Love seeing a big ol' bucket mouth!
Been too long since I've caught one...
Nice one! Great way to end the weekend....
Hawg bass on a surface lure! Dude! That's not common anywhere I've ever fished. What is common is a first cast bass on farm ponds. After that, the ponds I used ta fish, they'ed all get spooked.
I've got one those frog patterned Jitterbugs, but I've always reached for the Hula Popper first.
well i would expect so, being you are in Hawaii lol. The hula popper hangs next to jitterbug...in frog pattern :)
Nice Bucket Mouth! :o
Nice fish John....good to see you getting out on the water...BIll